“What matters is not to know the world but to change it.” – Frantz Fanon “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” – Rosa Luxemburg Oppression, more often than not, is both physical as well as psychological. Moreover, oppression has many forms and manifestations. Unfortunately however, while many […]
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by cipactli of Brown Berets – Prison Chapter March 2013 Chris Dorner was the all-Amerikan young man, but national oppression in the U.$. still got to him causing him to put what he felt was right over everything else. Recently an ex-LAPD officer, Chris Dorner, was in the news for killing cops and their family members, […]
By Dave Lindorff February 12, 2013 “This Can’t Be Happening” – Let’s not be too quick to dismiss the “ranting” of renegade LAPD officer Chris Dorner. Dorner, a three-year police veteran and former Lieutenant in the US Navy who went rogue after being fired by the LAPD, has accused Los Angeles Police of systematically using […]
By Abdul Olugbala Shakur, By Abdul Olugbala Shakur, Prisonersolidarity.org Jan. 23, 2007 Preamble My Kolonial slave title is James Earl Harvey, but I am known my New Afrikan Freedom name, which is Abdul Olugbala Shakur. At the age of 17, a young black teenage girl was gang raped by three white male sailors, so I […]
Peoples’ Justice for Community Control & Police Accountability Police Violence Weekly Digest, Volume 15 December 20, 2012 Happy hollerdays PJ fam! Just in case the world ends tomorrow, we wanted to send out our final police violence weekly digest of 2012! In all seriousness, let’s hope the Mayan calendar is correct & that 2013 brings […]
Posted by Eljeer Hawkins on August 25, 2011 The United States imprisons 2.3 million women and men. This is the highest incarceration rate in the advanced capitalist world. Every day this system continues its deadly assault on working people… by Eljeer Hawkins (Harlem, New York) Remembering George Jackson: September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971 […]
Parole: Life on the Outside Piri Thomas in 1957 Piri Thomas was arrested for armed robbery and spent seven years in the 1950s locked up at Bellevue, Sing Sing, and finally Great Meadows (Comstock). He wrote 7 Long Times as a sequel to his very famous autobiography Down these Mean Streets. Thomas just passed away […]
On this eve of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, we host a wide-ranging discussion with TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson and author Michelle Alexander about the mass incarceration of African Americans that has rolled back many achievements of the civil rights movement. Today there are more African Americans under correctional control, whether in prison or […]
Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Comrade George Jackson August 4, 2011 by Kiilu Nyasha George Lester Jackson, known as Comrade, spent 11 years in California prisons, mostly in solitary confinement. After plea-bargaining a $70 gas station robbery in 1960, he got one to life. “I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao […]
AlterNet / By Rania Khalek 15 Years in Prison For Taping the Cops? How Eavesdropping Laws Are Taking Away Our Best Defense Against Police Brutality More and more people use their smartphones to record police misconduct. But laws against wiretapping are being used to intimidate and stop them. July 27, 2011 | Over Memorial […]
